One of my neighbors used to have a beautiful tree in her front yard. Her dad had planted it for her when it was nothing more than a twig and several years later it started to shoot towards the sky with amazing speed. Soon it blessed her with cooling shade in the summer and glorious, golden leaves in the fall.

When the two-day snowstorm struck our town, heavy snow fell on the tree’s branches that were still full of leaves. The weight split (劈叉) that lovely tree down the middle. It was so sad seeing half of it laying on the ground after the storm. When I talked to my neighbor later, she said that the damage had been too much and that the entire tree would have to be cut down. Thankfully she had saved a few saplings(树苗) from it that she hoped to replant in the future.

Still, it was a shock to drive by her house the other day and see nothing but a stump(树桩) in her front yard. I missed that tree. I missed its beauty, its leaves shinning in the afternoon sun. I missed seeing its limbs reach towards the heavens. I thought that the stump would be a sad reminder of its loss for a long time to come. My wonderful neighbor, though, had another plan. When I drove by her home today I saw a tiny bird feeder sitting on that stump and a colorful songbird having its dinner. It was such an affirmation of life. It was such a joy to see. I could feel my heart smile.

Life by its very nature is a mixed bag. It hands us both beauty and tragedy, love and loss, pleasure and pain. What we do with it, however, is up to us. We can let it split us in two, or we can use even its hardest times to make our souls stronger and our hearts more loving. We can spend it complaining or we can use it to help others.

1. We know from the first paragraph that _____．

A. the tree grew very slowly

B. the author’s neighbor was good at planting trees

C. the tree showed its beauty and benefits

D. the tree was so strong that it could bear any weight

2. The author’s neighbor left a stump in her front yard to use it as_____.

A. a good reminder    B. a seat after dinner

C. a beautiful sculpture    D. a place to feed birds

3. What does the author mainly want to show in the passage？

A. Life has beauty and tragedy.

B. Life consists of pain and suffering.

C. Life is determined by our attitude towards it.

D. Life should be pleasant rather than painful.

When one loves one’s Art, no service seems too hard.

Joe was a man with a genius(天才) for art. Delia did things in six octaves(音阶) promisingly.

Joe and Delia became in love with one of the other, or each of the other, as you please, and in a short time were married – for (see above), when one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.

They began housekeeping in a flat. It was a lonesome(无人迹的) flat, but they were happy; for they had their Art, and they had each other.

Joe was learning painting in the class of the great Magister – you know his fame. His fees are high; his lessons are light – his high-lights have brought him fame. Delia was studying under  Rosenstock – you know his reputation as a disturber of the piano keys.

They were mighty(非常地) happy as long as their money lasted. 

After a while, Art flagged(减退). Everything going out and nothing coming in, money was lacking to pay Mr. Magister and Rosenstock their prices. When one loves one’s Art, no service seems too hard. So, Delia said she must give music lessons to make the ends meet.

For two or three days she went out looking for pupils. One evening she came home overjoyed.

“Joe, dear,” she said, cheerfully, “I’ve a pupil. And, oh, the loveliest people! General – General Pinkney’s daughter Clementina – on Seventy-first street.”

“That’s all right for you, Dele,” said Joe, “but how about me? Do you think I’m going to let you work while I play in the regions of high art? ”

Delia came and hung about his neck.

“Joe, dear, you are silly. You must keep on at your studies. It is not as if I had quit my music and gone to work at something else. While I teach I learn. I am always with my music.”

“All right,” said Joe. “But I may sell some of my pictures as well.”

The next few weeks, they both busied themselves with their own business and brought back a ten, a five, a two and a one – all legal tender notes – and laid them beside each others’ earnings.

One Saturday evening Joe reached home first. He spread his $18 on the table and washed what seemed to be a great deal of dark paint from his hands.

Half an hour later Delia arrived, her right hand tied up in a shapeless bundle(束) of wraps and bandages(绷带).

“How is this?” asked Joe. Delia laughed, but not very joyously. “Clementina,” she explained, “insisted upon a Welsh rabbit(一种奶酪) after her lesson. In serving the rabbit she spilled a great lot of it, boiling hot, over my wrist. Nothing serious, dear.”

“What time this afternoon did you burn your hand, Dele?”

“Five o’clock, I think,” said Dele. “The iron – I mean the rabbit came off the fire about that time.”

“Sit down here a moment, Dele,” said Joe. “What have you been doing for the last few weeks, Dele?” he asked.

She braved it for a moment or two with an eye full of love and stubbornness, but at last down went her head and out came the truth and tears.

“I couldn’t get any pupils,” she wept. “I got a place ironing shirts in that big Twenty-fourth street laundry(洗衣店). A girl in the laundry set down a hot iron(熨斗) on my hand this afternoon. I think I did very well to make up both General Pinkney and Clementina. What made you ever suspect that I wasn’t giving music lessons?”

“I didn’t,” said Joe, “until tonight. And I wouldn’t have then, only I sent up this cotton waste and oil from the engine-room this afternoon for a girl upstairs who had her hand burned with a smoothing-iron. I’ve been firing the engine in that laundry for the last few weeks.”

“And then you didn’t …” said Delia

And then they both looked at each other and laughed, and Joe began:

“When one loves one’s Art no service seems …”

But Delia stopped him with her hand on his lips. “No,” she said – “just ‘When one loves.’”

46. What can we know about the couple from the story?

A. They both became famous for their talents in art.

B. They turned out to be working at the same laundry.

47. What qualities of the couple’s are best conveyed in the story?

A. intelligent and economical    B. faithful and romantic

C. considerate and giving    D. hardworking and loyal

48. Which of the following does NOT give readers a clue(线索) that the couple were telling white lies?

A. Delia said she must give music lessons to make the ends meet.

B. Joe washed what seemed to be a great deal of dark paint from his hands.

C. Delia’s right wrist was tied up in a shapeless bundle of wraps and bandages.

D. “The iron – I mean the rabbit came off the fire about that time” said Dele.

49. Why does the author repeat “When one loves one’s Art no service seems too hard.”?

A. To reveal the theme of the story.

B. To explain the author’s writing purpose.

C. To indicate the sad mood of the story.

D. To assist with the development of the story.

50. What can serve as the best title of this story?

A. A Service of Love    B. A Service of Art

C. No Art No Love    D. The Love for Art

The Great Fire of London started in the very early hours of 2 September 1666．In four days it destroyed more than three-quarters of the old city, where most of the houses were wooden and close together．Over one hundred people became homeless, but only a few lost their lives.

　　The fire started on Sunday morning in the house of the King’s baker in Pudding Lane．The baker, with his wife and family, was able to get out through a window into the roof．A strong wind blew the fire from the bakery into a small hotel next door．Then it spread quickly into Thames Street．That was the beginning.

　　By eight o’ clock three hundred houses were on fire．On Monday nearly a kilometer of the city was burning along the River Thames．Tuesday was the worst day．The fire destroyed many well-known buildings, old St Paul’s and the Guildhall were among them.

　　Samuel Pepys, the famous writer, wrote about the fire, “People threw their things into the river．Many poor people stayed in their houses until the last moment．Birds fell out of the air because of the heat.”

　　The fire stopped only when the King finally ordered people to destroy hundreds of buildings in the path of the fire．With nothing left to burn, the fire became weak and finally died out.

　　After the fire, Christopher Wren, the architect(建筑师), wanted a city with wider streets and fine new houses of stone．In fact, the streets are still narrow, but he did build more than fifty churches, among them was the new St Paul’s Cathedral.

　　The fire caused great pain and loss, but after it London was a better place: a city for the future and not just of the past.

12．The fire began in　　 .

　A．a hotel　　B．the palace　C．Pudding Lane　D．Thames Street

13．The underlined word‘family’ in the second paragraph means 　 .

　A．home　　B．children　　C．wife and husband　　D．wife and children

14．It seems that the writer of the text was most sorry for the fact that 　 .

　A．some people lost their lives

　B．the birds in the sky were killed by the fire

　C．many famous buildings were destroyed

  D．the King’s bakery was burned down

15．Why did the writer cite(引用)Samuel Pepys?

　A．Because Pepys was among those putting out the fire.

　B．Because Pepys also wrote about the fire.

　C．To show that poor people suffered most.

　D．To give the reader a clearer picture of the fire.

71. Protecting the environment is b        (有益) to the society and the people.

72. The lawyer advised us to get help from the g       (政府).

73.A car came from n       (无处), and I had to jump back into the jungle in time.

74. Political leaders united yesterday to c       (谴责) the latest wave of violence.

75. I’m sorry to i       (打断) your conversation. May I break in?

He ____(be) busy yesterday, or he ___(help) you with your experiment.

在空自处填入 1 个适当的单词或者适当形式。

1. The price of petrol_____________ (rise) sharply since last month.

2. If you live abroad for some time you risk___________ (lose) old friends in your homeland.

3. In some European countries it is rude____________ (arrive) late for dinner

 It can be difficult if the only disabled toilet in the       a long way from where the film is showing.

A. basement    B. branch     C. boot    D. bank

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧）,并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均限一词；

2. 只允许修改10处,多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Patience is of great important in our daily life. Once I waited for a bus to come at a stop. 30 minutes past, but no bus came. Both upset and annoyed, I decided to walk on feet. But no sooner had I left when the bus arrived. I thought if I had waited for one more minute, I would have caught it. If I chose to take a next bus, I would have to wait for other 30 minutes. Only then do I realize my problem. Being impatient will possible waste all the efforts that we have put it in. Now whenever I am close to lose my patience, I’ll think of this experience.

You must have written your research paper, your personal essay, your book review—whatever your school class requires. You think you have provided good information in the needed number of words.   31  

But is it really done? Many teachers and professional writers believe that writing is revision.    32   

Revision of writing is a necessary skill for students. The classroom is a good place to practice patience, concentration and listening. There are rewards with spending time with your thoughts and really taking time to compose your ideas in an orderly and reasonable way. You should put away your paper after you have written a first version, or draft. Wait several hours, maybe overnight, before working on it more.   33   Not only are you refreshed, but you’re looking at things through different eyes. That’s what revision literally means—to see again through different eyes.

Following a four-step process may help you with your paper. The first step in the process is invention. It includes forming many questions about your subject. It is called “question-storming”.  34  Then comes the revision period. Take your time to read what you’ve written, to think about it, and maybe to re-shape it based on what you see now, as a kind of new person looking at it with a reader’s eyeglasses rather than a writer’s. The fourth step is called “publication”.  35  In a sense, anytime you turn it over to another person, that’s publication.

 Probably, the process takes away some of the tension of writing. And worry about the quality of your writing often disappears when you share that writing.

A.   Perfect writing is not possible.

B.   In the second step, you draft and compose a paper.

C.   And you feel good because your work is finished.

D.   This is just like returning to a job after a vacation.

E.   This does not mean your writing is professional publication.

F.   What is most important is getting your thoughts and ideas on paper.

G.  In other words, writing well means making needed changes and rewriting.

    假设你是李华，刚刚考上北京大学并已开学就读，请你用英语给远在美国进修的父亲写一封信，汇报自己的高考和在北大的情况。

　　1.考上了自己渴望已久的北京大学。

　　2.校园美丽，设备良好，有一座很大的图书馆。

　　3.教师出色，慈祥耐心。同学优秀，互相帮助。

　　4.自己对这里的一切非常满意，决心更加刻苦学习。

　　5.请爸爸不要为自己担心，自己已经长大了，会处理各种事情，并祝父亲身体好。

注意：

    1.词数100左右；

    2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

3.开头语和结束语已为你写好，不纳入词数。

Dear Dad,

　　I am very excited to tell you that I have passed the entrance examination and been admitted into Peking University.                                                                                    

                                                                     

                                                                                                 

                                                                                                 

                                                                                                  

                                                                                                 

                                                                              

                                                                                                 

With best wishes,

                                                               Li Hua

A. The researchers identified 15 blue whales that have appeared off the coast of British Columbia and the Gulf of Alaska since 1997. Four of these whales were recognized as ones that were once sighted off California shores, suggesting that the whales are returning to an old migration pattern between the coasts.
      Before commercial whaling began in the early 1900s, blue whales were found widely throughout the North Pacific and California waters. But from the 1920s to the 1960s, whaling severely reduced the whale populations. Blue whales never recovered in the Northern Pacific, making sightings in this area rare.  However, much larger groups of whales have been observed close to California since the 1970s.
     The scientists had previously thought that the California population was separate from the population that had historically lived in North Pacific waters. But the current study shows that whales off the coast of British Columbia and the Gulf of Alaska are likely part of the California population.
      To identify the blue whales, the researchers looked at photos of cetaceans taken in the North Pacific Ocean and compared them with a library of blue whale pictures taken along the West Cost of the United States and Southern Pacific. Up to now, the researchers are not quite sure why the whales are changing their migration patterns, but they suspect that the whales may be following their food moving farther north by the changes in ocean conditions.
32. According to the passage, blue whales are   ____       .
   A. moving from the south to the north.
    B. dying out due to commercial whaling.
   C.  following a fixed route of migration .

  D. rarely found in the Southern Pacific.
33. The whale population in the northern Pacific  ____        .
   A. is different from the California population
   B.has become the largest group since the 1970s
    C. is probably part of the California population   

  D. has lived there since the 1960s
34. The underlined word "cetaceans" in Paragraph 5 probably means____          .
   A. land creatures                        B. whale species
   C. ocean conditions                      D. migration patterns
35. What might make blue whales migrate according to the researchers?
    A. Commercial whaling.                   B. Food resources.
   C. Life reproduction.                      D.Weather conditions .

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Last Monday, my classmate and I saw some people gathering around in our way to school. In order to see what was happening, so we got close enough and found an old woman lie on the ground. The people around her just stand there, watching and chatting. We were worried about her and decided to take her to the hospital immediate. It turned out that she lost her balance but fell. She had to stay in hospital, so we called her family. Soon his son came and thanked us by offering us money. We refused money and left. Hurried to school, we found we were late. To our delight though, our teacher praised us for that we had done and we felt very proud.

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B.. They charge students who want to learn
C. They include many sides about China
D. They can be made by yourself if you want to make a course.
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A.  Making friends.      B. Talking with friends.
C. Learning English.       D. Having a platform and web space for you
23. HMCI is probably the name of _______.
A. a school leader   B. an educational organization  

 C. a political party  D. a news reporter

61.Do you know the person who _________(指挥) the performance last night?

62.There is no doubt that good diet is_____________(有益于) to health.

63. By doing well at school he hoped to win his parents’___________(认可)。

64._____________(陪伴) by an adult, children under 14 can watch the movie.

65.Something like this is __________(一定) to happen.

66.He had been a ______________(有天赋的) musician in his youth.

67. There is a church just ____________(对面) my house.

68. Those who ___________(放弃) themselves to despair can not succeed.

69.The first thing I became____________(意识到) of was all the vivid colors.

70. He gives his son some money for the ______________(购买) of his school books .

By the time you finish this book，your meal ________ cold．（　　）

A．gets       B．has got

C．will have got       D．is getting

Fireworks are used to celebrate the new year around the world.

In China, fireworks are used to drive away evils. Right after midnight on New Year’s Eve, fireworks are set off. It     61     (believe) that the person who launches the first firework of the new year will have good luck.

Dubai is hosting a fireworks display from Burj Khalifa(哈利法塔), the world’s     62     (tall) building. The event will also be live broadcast,     63     (offer) visitors the choice between three camera angles.

Fireworks by Grucci will feature a spectacular display at Atlantis, the Palm Hotel and Resort in Dubai. The company plans to spell “Atlantis” in the sky with fireworks. It will use the reflections of the fireworks in the water to enhance the display.

“One of their     64     (idea) is to create a shimmering red carpet,     65     will light up the sky as well as reflect in the water below,” wrote the Khaleej Times.

Berlin is celebrating the new year with     66     open-air party at the Brandenburg Gate. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected     67     (attend).     68     will be an international program of live music, light and laser shows, and plenty of food and drink.

Some cities will not be celebrating the new year with fireworks. Belgium cancelled its       69   (tradition) fireworks display in central Brussels due     70     fears of the continuing terror threat.

Last weekends, my kids along with few other kids from the neighborhood volunteered to help me wash my car.My 10-year-old daughter came up with the idea of  21_  other people’s cars as well.It was pretty  22_  outside and I had no plans to  23  being in the bright sun.She  24_  wanted to give lemonade(柠檬汽水)to passerby for free.I had seen little kids 25 and sell fresh lemonade for a small cost but not free.Although I felt  26_  , I decided to help her. 27_ she asked me, “What if we   28 this a smile car wash?” I couldn’t hold back my tears and  29_ her and the other kids to go outside the house and come up with  30_ ideas.While I kept myself busy in drying the car, the gang walked up to me with a(n)  31   with beautiful images of smiles.They had “Free Car Wash” written on it and the 32_  of their exercise was “smile”.It was pretty neat to see a team of kids ranging 5-11 years with the  33_   to do something for others. All that seemed  34_  and came right from their heart.Nothing seemed to  35_  to them: their playtime, the heat outside—they just wanted to  36 others and do something nice in the community! I helped them make some fresh lemonade and brought out some additional  37 to help clean cars.Passersby were  38  and one even shouted back to them saying “God Bless You, my kids…” One of them even tried giving them 5 dollars, which they refused.A pretty heartwarming  39  ! I feel blessed by being  40_  by such wonderful and loving souls. 21.A.drying     B.repairing  C.washing   D.decoratin

22.A.quiet       B.hot   C.different          D.dirty

23.A.suggest    B.avoidC.continue        D.practise

24.A.further    B.therefore  C.already    D.hardly

25.A choose     B.enjoy       C.buy      D.serve

26.A.worried   B.popular     C.confused  D.difficult

27.A.Finally    B.Simply    C.Then    D.Luckily

28.A.show       B.leave     C.make     D.order

29.A.challenged      B.expected  C.invited     D.encouraged

30.A.creative   B.ready      C.changed   D.familiar

31.A.board      B.picture     C.idea       D.car

32.A.process    B.trouble    C.secret      D.theme

33.A.need       B.duty        C.imagination     D.skill

34.A.important      B.disappointing      C.hopeful    D.natural

35.A.matter     B.object      C.belong     D.refer

36.A.relax        B.try      C.help     D.smile

37.A.friends    B.rags  C.children   D.fruit
38.A.interested      B.amazed    C.bored      D.frightened

39.A.scene            B.gift       C.story     D.explanation

40.A.supported     B.understood      C.refused    D.surrounded

Thinking about the future isn’t special skill. Actually, everyone does it all the time. We schedule future activities and appointments on our calendars. We make to-do lists, a promise to ourselves of how we will spend our future time and energy. We look up the weekend’s weather. We make predictions about the results of sporting events. We practice, study and train for upcoming events that matter to us. We daydream about events we’re eagerly looking forward to. We worry about others.

Most of this common future thinking is about the near future: the next few minutes, hours, days, weeks, months or maybe even the next few years of our lives. Little time is spent thinking about what our lives will be like or what actions we should prepare to take in the far future: ten years, twenty years, or even fifty years from now. This kind of far-future thinking is the domain of professional futurists.

Futurists are trained to imagine distant realities that seem impossible to others: technologies that don’t exist yet, great changes to laws, strange diseases most likely to infect us in the year 2031. Why indeed think about such remote futures? Are there psychological and social benefits to imagining the world, and our lives, decades in advance? And if so, what does it take to become good at imagining the far future?

These were the fascinating questions that we recently explored with other futurists. I was personally inspired by the discussions, and learned a lot about how futurists imagine the future of life. They specifically wanted to use their imaginations to make the world a better place. Another big benefit for me was that this way of thinking is a skill that can be taught. Society would benefit greatly if we all learned the valuable skills that enable us to think about what things would be like in the future.

9. The writer gives many examples in the first paragraph to      

    A. draw readers' attention        B. tell readers the main idea of the passage

C. entertain readers             D. explain the topic

10. The underlined word, "domain", in the second paragraph can be replaced by "  ".

A. understanding     B. field    C. choice      D. rule

11. Which of the following things might a futurist think about?

A. The result of sporting event being held.

B. The weather of the coming weekend.

C. A life-threatening disease that doesn't exist yet.

D. A new technology widely used in daily life.

12. What does the writer want to tell us in the last paragraph?

A. The way futurists imagine the future of life is interesting.

B. The idea of using imagination to make the world a better place is ridiculous.

C. It is impossible for us to think about future things as futurists.

D. Society will benefit a lot if we all train ourselves to think as a futurist.

When Jane put out the idea of homeschooling to her parents, the first reaction they gave was, “You are cutting the child off the world.” “Did the child really get cut off or did the child socialize better?”

The moment we hear of homeschooling, we think the child will have no opportunities to interact with their peers. However, in my friend’s opinion, we forget that when attending a regular school, the child is not into socializing all the while. The child is restricted to so many other activities. Studies take a major role in a child’s life. The child hardly has the time to interact at school.

The child might be meeting and studying along with many peers; however, how many kids interact with all the kids in a class? But in homeschooling system, as my friend mentioned, the kid has all the time and can plan his day accordingly. During the day the child studies just like other school-going kids but with no burden of homework and project work, the child has so much free time in the evening as to effectively interact and play with peers. The quality time the child spends in education is really impressive.

Homeschooled kids have the opportunity to socialize more often as they have a lot of time in their hands. They can also make socializing a regular habit. Just as my friend said, her child goes to a neighboring park almost every day and has a set of friends who go there daily. Other children get back home to finish off homework and project work whereas her child who is already through with studies gets the opportunity to spend time with family members.

When I heard this, I really felt how lucky the child was. Definitely the child had a better opportunity to socialize when compared with my kid. However, I might not consider homeschooling for my kid, as I am so used to the conventional schooling system and feel regular schooling the safest bet.

1. The author’s purpose in writing the passage is to _________.

A. express his views on homeschooling

B. explain what homeschooling is

C. share his ways of teaching his children

D. promote homeschooling

2. What is the biggest advantage of homeschooled children?

A. They will become braver.

B. They can be more popular.

C. They can socialize better.

D. They will know how to arrange time.

3. What do we know about homeschooled children?

A. They don’t interact with their peers often.

B. They have more spare time to play.

C. They are restricted to certain activities

D. They can’t gain enough knowledge....

4. How does the passage mainly develop?

A. By following the order of importance.

B. By following the order of time.

C. By making comparisons.

D. By presenting data.

Five meteorologists (气象学家) who were trapped for two weeks after polar bears surrounded their weather station are now able to leave after the creatures were chased away. Their supervisor told NBC News early Wednesday.

Russian officials had feared the siege could last for another month, the time it would take to reach the islands in the Kara Sea, high in the Arctic Circle. But on Tuesday night a research ship took a detour (绕道) to assist those weathermen, station supervisor Vasily Shevchenko told NBC News. The ship run by Russia’s state-run oil firm Rosneft frightened away the bears using its helicopter, before resupplying the weather station with more food and puppies (幼犬) . The puppies are not yet big enough to deter the bears, but the station is planning to draft in a replacement adult guard dog as soon as possible.

Some of the bears had taken to sleeping directly outside the windows of remote outpost. There was no risk of the researchers starving because they had a year’s worth of food, but they were forced to take dangerous trips to a nearby building, holding a gun for protection, according to Shevchenko.

Polar bears are an endangered species. In Russia, it’s a crime to shoot them unless in self-defense. The bears usually leave the islands in the summer, but this time they were trapped by the melting ice, an apparent sign of climate change, according to Shevchenko. “They’ve stayed on the island because there is nowhere for them to go,” he said.

The animals suffer from global warming because it shrinks the floating ice that forms their main hunting ground. According to the environmental group the World Wide Fund for Nature, known as the WWF, this has got some polar bears to go near human habitats in search of food.

8. What did the research ship do to help the five meteorologists?

A. Drive them home.

B. Shoot all the bears.

C. Use its helicopter to scare the bears away.

D. Supply the weather station with more money.

9. The underlined Word “deter” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to “______”.

A. stop    B. respect

C. protect    D. raise

10. What made the bears trapped on the island according to the text?

A. Sea Pollution.    B. Climate change.

C. Humans’ hunting.    D. Animals’ hunting

11. What can we infer from the text?

A. People in Russia can hunt bear for money.

B. The melting ice will kill all the polar bears.

C. The five meteorologists hated the bears very much.

D. WWF made some contributions to protecting polar bears.